The aged epidermal permeability barrier: Basis for functional abnormalities

Skin Barrier

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 535-552

  Barland, Chantal O ^a   Elias, Peter M ^a   Ghadially, Ruby ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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